US Study Reveals Dementia Risk Factors Unique to Indians, South Asians

A Rutgers University review has surfaced a quiet but consequential truth: the dementia that afflicts over 8.8 million Indians is not the same disease, in its causes or its contours, as the one Western medicine has spent decades studying. Shaped by educational deprivation, untreated sensory loss, malnutrition, and distinct genetic inheritance, cognitive decline in South Asia follows its own logic — one that global research frameworks have largely failed to see. In the absence of a single nationwide Indian study on the disease, millions face a crisis that science has not yet learned to name on t